The One-Straw Revolution - Multiworld India

there is no inconsistency in seeing the water as standing still and thebridge as flowing by.If, on the other hand, following the second path, the scene is dividedinto a variety of natural phenomena, the water, the speed of the current,the waves, the wind and white clouds, all of these separately becomeobjects of investigation, leading to further questions, which spread outendlessly in all directions. This is the path of science.The world used to be simple. You merely noticed in passing that yougot wet by brushing against the drops of dew while meandering throughthe meadow. But from the time people undertook to explain this one dropof dew scientifically, they trapped themselves in the endless hell of theintellect.Water molecules are made up of atoms of hydrogen and oxygen.People once thought that the smallest particles in the world were atoms,but then they found out that there was a nucleus inside the atom.Now they have discovered that within the nucleus there are eventinier particles. Among these nuclear particles there are hundreds ofdifferent varieties and no one knows where the examination of thisminute world will end.It is said that the way electrons orbit at ultra-high speeds within theatom is exactly like the flight of comets within the galaxy. To the atomicphysicist the world of elementary particles is a world as vast as theuniverse itself. Yet it has been shown that in addition to the immediategalaxy in which we live there are countless other galaxies. In the eyes ofthe cosmologist, then, our entire galaxy becomes infinitesimally small.The fact is that people who think a drop of water is simple or that arock is fixed and inert are happy, ignorant fools, and the scientists whoknow that the drop of water is a great universe and the rock is an165